Improvement in gates



, JOHN H. HUNTER, 0E VERSAILLES, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 96,436, dated November 2, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN GATES.

The Schedule referred to 1n these Letters Patent: and making parl: cftlxo same.

VTo all whom i t may concern.'

'Be it known that I, JonN H. HUNTEn, oVersalles, in the countyoi'Ripley, and State of Indiana', have iuvented a uewaud usefulImprovement` in Gates; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull and eorrect description ot' the sante, sutlicient to enable othersto understzuul and construct; it, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, and inwhich- Figure 1 is a plan of my improved gate;

Figure 2 is a side elevation; and

Figure 3, a perspective view of the same.

Like letters ot' reference indicate like parts in the several t1' gures.

INIyinventlon relates to that class of gates which is opened from acarriage or horse, by means ot' levers secured to posts at. a short.distance from the gatepost; and

l1i: consists in a. peculiar ,combination and arrange.

meut ot' levers, by means oi' which the gate is no1; only operated, but;also locked and unlocked. v

In the drawings, A A' represent the. t'wo posts, on opposite sides ot' aroad, between which the gate B swings,- being hinged to post A.

This gate is provided with a sliding bolt or latch, l), which catehes'ina recess in post-A to lock the gate. livoted in a slot, c, in bolt b, isa shortlevel', a, the.

i other end oif. which is connected to the longer arm of a bell-cranklever, C, pivoted to post Aand connected with its other and shorter armto bars D D.

These bal-s1) D are .in a'suitable manner pivote'd Lto hand-leviers EE', which in turn are pivoted to posts 1".1", ihesc posts being in linewith each other aud tpost A.

supposing a carriage to come ltoward gate B (which is closed) in thedirection from post, F, by pulling the lever E in the direction ofthearrow in ig..3, the barl v1) operates on the shorter arm of bell-cranklever C,

d, when its motion is arrested, while, the movement',`v

ot' the bell-crank lever still continuing,r for-a moment, this motion isexerted upon bolt b, ibrcingit; into-a proper recess in post, F, andlocking the gate iu posit-ion, as shown in red lines in tig. 1.

When the carriage has passed, and it is desired to 'put the. gaten-gainacross the. road, the lever E' having moved to a position parallel tolevel' E, is moved in thedirecton of'. lthe blue arrow, tig. 3, when theabivc-deserilu-d operation is reversed. l

It will be easily understood that the same' result is attained byoperating lever E' in the direction of the red arrow, tig. 3, the bar D,in that case, pulling iustead ofpushiugr lever C.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lets ters latcnt, is-

The. oombhmtion and arrangement of levers E E', O, a, bars l) 1)', boltb, and gate B, arranged to operate as herein described and shown.

JOHN H. HUNTER.

VWitnesses:

OBED WILLsoN, TILEonD J. KENAN.

